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Optical spectroscopy often seems to be somewhat overlooked at Pittcon®, with much of the attention focusing on hyphenated technologies such as GC/MS or ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (... read more

Soon after the first spectrophotometer was built, the challenge of improving it began. How could we make spectrophotometers better? Could we make them smaller, faster, or perhaps improve the ... read more

The year 2013 celebrates a new benchmark for imaging at Pittcon®. Historically, Pittcon has not been considered an imaging meeting, despite the fact that a review of Pittcon 2012 statistics revealed ... read more

Of the 979 exhibitors at Pittcon®
2011, held March 13–18 in
Atlanta, GA, 115 were first-time
exhibitors, and more than 200
identified themselves as having something to do with spectroscopy, from ... read more

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal, neurodegenerative transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) in cattle that is thought to be the cause of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)... read more

Ion chromatography (IC) with conductivity detection has been used successfully to determine anionic and cationic substances as well as polar compounds such as amines and organic acids. However, in ... read more

Due to the diversity of pesticides used in food protection and the globalization of the food industry, it is important to monitor programs that cover a large number of pesticides. The application of ... read more

Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites produced by many species of microscopic filamentary fungi occurring on field cereals including barley, which is used in the production of beer. The most ... read more